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Harvard's need-blind financial aid policies may no longer be threatened by federal funding cuts to higher education, but many of the challenges and controversies experienced at Harvard by the Class of 1982 remain important issues today. Then as now, Harvard's relations with local residents were in the spotlight, with signs of progress and cooperation mixed with discontent and allegations of poor treatment by the University. Today's wrangling over Allston echoes disputes in 1982 over the Medical School's energy plant (MATEP) and the acquisition of land at University Place. The referendum to create a new Undergraduate...
...words of Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, “I can’t think of anyone who’s done more to shape the modern Harvard at the grassroots level than Fred...
...April 12, 1955: The creation of a vaccine for polio is announced. Two Harvard professors, Thomas H. Weller and John F. Enders, aid in the development of the vaccine. The two would later receive the Nobel Prize for developing a method of cultivating polio viruses on non-nervous tissue...
Also among the pressing needs Pusey cited in his report were the shortage of housing for married students, the lack of space for the growing Chemistry, Behavioral Sciences and Astronomy Departments and the need for more professorships and money for financial aid...
...that unusual for a Democrat to castigate automakers in an environmental speech. But when Obama did the castigating, it was in front of the Detroit Economic Club. Nor did he help his chances of winning the endorsements of the city's big unions by asserting that any aid Washington gives the automakers for their soaring health-care costs should be tied to improving fuel efficiency...